“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power ”
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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power ”
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
“A man growing old becomes a child again”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely”
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply”
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on ”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards ”
“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing ”
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”
“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move”
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it”
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home”
“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings”
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom ”
“Things do not change; we change”
“The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise”
“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast ”
“The home is the chief school of human virtues”
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader”
“Some people reach the age of sixty before others”